About

• Company Mission
• Founders
• Board of Directors

A K Peters, Ltd. is a leading independent scientific technical publisher based in Wellesley, Massachusetts, specializing in computer science and mathematics. It was founded in 1992 by Alice Peters and Klaus Peters. The Company’s program ranges from textbooks through advanced professional publications, also including a range of specialist trade titles, as well as scholarly monographs. A K Peters also publishes three journals, including the journal of graphics tools, Experimental Mathematics, and Internet Mathematics. Across these formats, the program is tightly focused on quality and relevance in its chosen disciplines. An important guiding principle behind the company is its philosophy of working in service to the scientific community.

A K Peters has nearly 300 titles in print and publishes approximately 35-40 new titles annually. In addition, we distribute the proceedings of the annual Graphics Interface conference, sponsored by the Canadian Human-Computer Communications Society. We are the co-publisher of the Canadian Mathematical Society’s new CMS Treatises in Mathematics Series. Our titles have been featured in the Scientific American Book Club and are consistently reviewed or excerpted in both technical and popular interest journals, such as Gamasutra.com, The Mathematical Intelligencer, Nature, Science, Scientific American, and New Scientist.

Company Mission

A K Peters is a scientific technical publishing company that provides a sustainable service to the scientific community by publishing high-quality material (books, videos, journals) and optimizing its distribution through reasonable pricing, responsible editing, attractive packaging, and effective world-wide marketing.

Founders

Alice Peters and Klaus Peters have nearly eighty years of combined experience as distinguished publishers. Over the course of their career they developed prestigious lists as editors of programs at major academic publishers, including:

• Springer-Verlag (1964–1978)
• Birkhäuser Boston (1979–1984)
• Academic Press (1984–1990)
• Jones and Bartlett (1990–1992)
• A K Peters (1992–Present)

Klaus Peters received a Ph.D from the University of Erlangen in 1962. In 1964 he took a leave of absence from his position as Assistant Professor and joined Springer Verlag as mathematics editor. He built the mathematics publishing program at Springer Verlag (from 5 titles per year to over 100 per year). In 1974, he was appointed Scientific Director of Springer Verlag. In 1979, he resigned from Springer and, together with Alice Peters, started Birkhäuser Boston. After the sale of Birkhäuser to Springer in 1984, he and Alice Peters opened new offices for Academic Press/Harcourt Brace Jovanovich in Cambridge, MA and supervised the publishing program in the mathematical sciences, including computer science and theoretical physics. In 1992 they founded A K Peters, Ltd. He is a member of the American Mathematical Society, the German Mathematical Society and a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

Alice Peters received a Masters in Computer Science from the University of Chicago in 1979. She also received an MBA from Babson College. She joined Springer-Verlag NY in 1972 as mathematics editor and later moved to Heidelberg where she started the computer science publishing program at Springer-Verlag. In 1979, she resigned from Springer and together with Klaus Peters, started Birkhäuser Boston. She was President of Revi-Data, Inc, a software development company, providing complete solutions for the publishing industry. After the sale of Birkhäuser to Springer in 1984, she opened new offices for Academic Press/Harcourt Brace Jovanovich in Cambridge, MA, together with Klaus Peters, where she developed the computer science and applied mathematics publishing programs. In 1992, together with Klaus Peters, she founded A K Peters, Ltd. She is a member of the American Mathematical Society and the Association for Computing.

Board of Directors

A K Peters is governed by a board of directors composed of highly respected individuals from the scientific and business community:

• Elwyn R. Berlekamp, University of California, Berkeley
• William R. Hearst III, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers
• David Mumford, Brown University, Fields Medalist 1974
• Alice Peters, A K Peters, Ltd.
• Klaus Peters, A K Peters, Ltd.